[90173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange network problem accessing Ebay and versiontracker websites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Sherrard)
Wed May 3 17:33:20 2006
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:30:29 -0700
From: Robert Sherrard <rob@robsherrard.com>
Reply-To: rob@robsherrard.com
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031722140.11425@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
For what's it's worth you could use ping and the "don't fragment" switch
to test MTU sizes.
Rob
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Shane Owens wrote:
>
>> Can anyone give me any suggestions as to what routes to take to
>> troubleshoot this? Logic tell me that is I have reach ability and one
>> browser work but another doesn't it's a software problem with either the
>> browser or the site, but being able to take the same machine to another
>> network and have it work points to a whole different problem.
>> Could this be a MTU issue?
>
> It sounds like that is a possibility. Are the DSL users being served
> by PPPoE? Setting the IP MTU on your PPPoE access template, depending
> on whose gear you're using to provide the servide provider end of your
> DSL services, to 1492 may help.
>
> jms
>
